pudding

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes
  2. noun (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
  3. noun any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed

Etymology

From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin. * An alternative etymology assumes origin from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”) (compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), Old English puduc (“wen, sore”), Low German puddig (“swollen”), Westphalian Puddek (“lump, pudding”), Puddewurst (“black pudding”). More at pout.

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